Today is the first day after a long time when i just took the guitar and woke up singing and strolling outside. I was finally able to lay on the grass, under the unexpectedly kind sun. A nice gentleman who was walking his dog started enthusiastically to tell me stories about the endless fields of lava surrounding us…

The last month was very hurried and didn’t announce her leaving, after all we have been through together. Exactly after the departure of the Icelandic scouts to Nocrich, i came back to the most provocative project: the surviving camp ‘Lost in the Lava’ which was going to happen at the end of the month…

And i had only 3 weeks to convince the people and to organise everything.

Oh, and only a couple of days to prepare the long-awaited trip around the country: 3 days of driving a manual gearbox car, after almost 2 years of driving only automatic gearbox cars.

Nice people, all kinds of surprises and the beauties of Iceland were waiting fro me

However, the preparations for the camp did not all go as planned, as i like to greet everything that is new here : ‘it’s part of the Icelandic experience’. And as a reward for all my work, i received what i deserved: in the first night of the camp, when everything was finally going perfect, i took part in a cosmic marvel: full moon, million of stars…and my first northern lights. Finally, i learned a lot of lessons and the feedback that i received from the Icelanders and from home as well convinced me that everything was worth it. Even to give up my icelandic language course diploma(I had to skip most of the classes). However, i am still motivated to learn this language, so i will continue to do it alone, with or without the diploma.

While preparing the beginning of the new scout year here, a group of Portuguese scouts joined us and helped us to make the place look more…scoutish and so August passed.

A lot happened at the beginning of September, but you will find out more when i will have more time to tell you. Sjáumst!